essam@gagme.chi.il.us (Essam Khairullah) (04/03/91)
I had written an INIT/cdev combination that will pop up a dialog at times which could be set in the Control Panel. It was working just fine and dandy but I allocated memory for various resources (mostly PICTs) on the fly. I decided that that wasn't what Apple would want since a cdev should allocate all of the memory it needs when it gets the initDev message. So I tacked on storage for my PICTs to my cdev's data structure and read them all in on receiveing the initDev message. But now my cdev crashes with a Bus Error when I close the cdev and sometime during other times. I've gone all through the cdev with a fine-toothed comb and can't tell what's going on. My about box gets a string from the resource fork of the cdev but it only gets the proper string the second time I display the about box; the first time through it gets only garbage. I'm calling ResError just about every other line of my cdev, but I never get a ResError. I'm writing this cdev using Think C 4.0 on a Mac II, using System 6.0.7. I'm using Think's cdev class only for the cdev proper, everything else is plain C. I was trying to use the cdev runner project, but it would freeze the machine after opening my cdev. The number/variety of INITs on my machine doesn't seem to make any difference. Does anyone have any ideas what could be going on? I lock my main data structure in memory and call HNoPurge for just about everything else!! --Thanks in advance, --Essam -- Essam Badi' Abu Khalil Khairullah Al-Madani Al-Hussain essam@gagme.chi.il.us I don't got no fancy signature, but it is long!